[Dell Inspiron 3542] 'ubuntu-driver list' does not suggest to use nvidia-graphics-drivers-331

[Taihsiang Ho]

tested by Dell Inspiron 3542 (CID 201402-14684) on 14.04 and 14.10 daily build

Steps to reproduce the bugs:
1. install the system
2. click 'Software center'-->Preference-->Additional drivers,
or, use the command 'ubuntu-driver list'

Expected result:
the system should suggest nvidia-graphics-drivers-331 driver package because
there is a nvidia graphic card
NVIDIA Corporation GF117M [GeForce 610M/710M/820M / GT 620M/625M/630M/720M] [10de:1140]

Actual result:
It didn't suggest any graphic driver to be used.

------ lspci -nnvv -d 10de:1140 ------

08:00.0 3D controller [0302]: NVIDIA Corporation GF117M [GeForce 610M/710M/820M / GT 620M/625M/630M/720M] [10de:1140] (rev a1)
 Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0652]
 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
 Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
 Latency: 0
 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 63
 Region 0: Memory at f6000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
 Region 1: Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
 Region 3: Memory at f0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
 Region 5: I/O ports at d000 [size=128]
 [virtual] Expansion ROM at f7000000 [disabled] [size=512K]
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel driver in use: nvidia

------ more information ------

* apt-cache show nvidia-331 | grep 0625
doesn't give you the expected modalias of the graphic card under sysfs

* manual installation of nvidia-331 could enable the graphic card and works fine.

$ dpkg -l | grep nvidia
ii nvidia-331 331.79-0ubuntu1 amd64 NVIDIA binary driver - version 331.79
ii nvidia-libopencl1-331 331.79-0ubuntu1 amd64 NVIDIA OpenCL Driver and ICD Loader library
ii nvidia-opencl-icd-331 331.79-0ubuntu1 amd64 NVIDIA OpenCL ICD
ii nvidia-prime 0.6.5 amd64 Tools to enable NVIDIA's Prime
ii nvidia-settings 331.20-0ubuntu8 amd64 Tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver

[Taihsiang Ho (tai271828)]

Please refer to LP: #1255813

This type of the graphic card is not listed in nvidia README

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Anthony Wong (anthonywong)]

@Tai, could you do a full system update and try again?